Tony's Diary Package — page 525

sent them for Wall Street Journal - 15,000,000/285,000 9 December 2020 The imarovenents in the Northern Plains, Rocky Mountain States and Heartland is beingdirectly offset by the surging cases and hospitalization onthe Weit Comet, Sunbelt, MidAtlantic and NE --these nore populous states will drive this over the mest 2-2 weeks and when combined with the pending Thanksgiving surge will represent the greatest threat to hosgital systems and general inpatient care Wie ore mow beginning to see the first evidence of impact of Thanksgiving family and friend gatherings -- see slides 10-19 --there are metrosthat were declining (heartland and upper micvyest) thatare mow increasing again and there are other northeast metros thet were rising that are now rising ata mone nopad rate. By ineset week I vill be able to define this more accurately and enaure we message about the upcoming Holidays Testing declined during Thankigiving time percd and nove testing haa resumed and test positivity niging deapite the inoneaded testing indhcating Community sired 36 States are in the COVID red 2one 9 alates are in Che Orenpe bone, J slates aren Hie yellow Done and 2 states and DC in green pone Hosnitalizations are starting to rise again --the primany rise from Thanksgiving sheould be over the neat 2 wrecks There ane now 35 Statesin the red (24) and orange (111) zone lor hospitalizations of COVID cases--peneral medical care delerionated when slates enter the ned zone -- there ancimenre states in this category everday -- decisien by cO00 on who is limvunized first will determine the furbure stability of the hospital aystem and loapetalization tates - cunent plan will mo. change the pandemic dynamics impact on hospital. Fatality Gaily rates are move bevice (he Sunime: surge ane will soon excead the Soaring surge This Wilnvter surge will ba bigger, broader, and mora daadly. Bringing tagether the states of the Soaring and Sumner surge inte one overwhelming therrat increasing hospitalaiions and deaths > evenwith De inmoeations this will be catastrophic without increased milgation now -- states without adequate public polices will have the highest fatality rates per populations equal to the Spring rates despite Improvements In care dua te the lack of mitigation. We do not have enough vaccine for vulnerable Americans to change hospétalization and fatalities trends in Dec-Feb--we need to be clear to Lie vimerican foonle vaccines will hares an impact in the Soring but MOT over ther niet 3 imeenths, Behavior change and proaction testing te find hath the asyinntamiatic: and symptomatic transmitters ae our only interventions and states are still mot testing correctly to find both The movenient of the surge into pogulous states especially without adequate polices or withaut individual Americana mltigating will drive fatalities, mast states do mot have adequate mitigation policies and fatalities will continue averaging aver P500dawy 17K week, TOK! month at aiminimumn reaching over 330K by Mew Years and 4508 by the end of February without calls for action at the Federal, State, and Lecal level and using PSAs to combat the COVID myths throughout the country Itwillbe wery cvident over the newt 20 days that mitigation polickes and behavioral change saved Ives and the lack of mitigation resulted in prewentabde deaths • Katie and Stephen Miller called me to thank me for the baby gift I sent them for daughter We had a nice discussion about life after Trump. • I was awarded "Sicilian of the Year" by the Magazine I Love Sicilia PRESS: KTWV Los Angeles Radio; BBC "Hard Talk", TV and Radio; Wall Street Journal CEO Council; December 9, 2020 - Global - 67,800,000/1,600,000; USA - 15,000,000/285,000 Deaths reached record of 3000 today! Just waiting to realize the full brunt of the Thanksgiving holiday. Trump still totally preoccupied with trying to overthrow the election. Biden carefully putting his team together